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MaxDB (the DBMS of SAP) support
I'm not sure whether it should be here or as an issue on the crystal-db project but it would be nice to be able to connect to MaxDB. The Ruby gem is using the JDBC driver for that.
That ruby gem only works on jruby by loading java code. If nobody has managed to port it to ruby, let alone crystal, I doubt this will happen any time soon.
Yes, the gem was written by SAP so I guess they wanted to provide compatibility to their database without investing too much resources into Ruby.
On the other hand there's even a driver for PHP that is mostly written in C (see php_maxdb.c and php_maxdb.h). And because Crystal and C are very good friends I wont loose any hope. :wink:
But @RX14, independent from that, do you think the place for this issue here is fine or should I rather move this to the crystal-db project? I guess it should be fine here because #70 is here as well?
It belongs here. If there's a C driver, then that's good! It can probably be bound.
For anyone who wants to have a look at it: Here is the PHP C driver (just in case anything happens with the linked svn repository).
php_maxdb.c.txt php_maxdb.h.txt
There are some calls that create PHP functions (i.e. PHP_FUNCTION, PHP_FALIAS, ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS and zend_function_entry) and I guess those have to be rewritten / removed / replaced by Crystal defintions.
PHP driver is basically a wrapper around a C SDK: http://maxdb.sap.com/documentation/sqldbc/SQLDBC_API and there is even an .h file available without registration - http://maxdb.sap.com/documentation/sqldbc/SQLDBC_API/SQLDBC__C_8h-source.html
@konovod you are clearly better in googling than me :wink: :+1:
Seems also to be available on GitHub.